2014 Sunburst Shortlist Announced

Finalists for the 14th annual Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced:

Adult

Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)

River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada)

This Strange Way of Dying, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Exile Editions)

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Penguin Canada)

The Demonologist, Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)

Young Adult

Sorrow’s Knot, Erin Bow (Scholastic)

The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, Charles de Lint (Little, Brown)

Homeland, Cory Doctorow (Tor)

The Path of Names, Ari Goelman (Scholastic)

Urgle, Meaghan McIsaac (Cormorant)

Honorable Mentions

The n-Body Problem, Tony Burgess (Chizine)

The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (McClelland & Stewart)

The Oathbreaker’s Shadow, Amy McCulloch (Doubleday Canada)

Wild Fell, Michael Rowe (ChiZine)

Beyond the Rift, Peter Watts (Tachyon)

Winners will be announced in fall 2014, and each will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion featuring a sunburst logo. Jurors for 2014 are Camille Alexa, Paul Glennon, Bob Knowlton, Nicole Luiken, and Derek Newman-Stille.

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